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supplies. However, more recent work has shown that the option character of bimetallism provided a stabilizing feedback loop … that up until 1874 markets were expecting bimetallism to last. It is only after this date that markets gradually started …
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supplies. However, more recent work has shown that the option character of bimetallism provided a stabilizing feedback loop … shows that up until 1874 markets were expecting bimetallism to last. It is only after this date that markets gradually …
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supplies. However, more recent work has shown that the option character of bimetallism provided a stabilizing feedback loop … shows that up until 1874 markets were expecting bimetallism to last. It is only after this date that markets gradually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788721
supplies. However, more recent work has shown that the option character of bimetallism provided a stabilizing feedback loop … shows that up until 1874 markets were expecting bimetallism to last. It is only after this date that markets gradually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800144
standard. -- Exchange rate regime ; gold standard ; bimetallism ; credibility ; silver risk … supplies. However, more recent work has shown that the option character of bimetallism provided a stabilizing feedback loop … shows that up until 1874 markets were expecting bimetallism to last. It is only after this date that markets gradually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902902
conventional wisdom concerning the limited credibility of the interwar gold standard. Before 1914, gold standard adherence … effectively signalled credibility and shaved 40 to 60 basis points from country borrowing spreads. In the 1920s, however, simply …
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contrast to Fisher (1911) and Friedman (1990), both of whom predict greater price stability under bimetallism, our model …
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contrast to Fisher (1911) and Friedman (1990), both of whom predict greater price stability under bimetallism, our model …
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We develop a simple model that highlights the costs and benefits of fixed exchange rates as they relate to trade, and show that negative export-price shocks reduce fiscal revenue and increase the likelihood of an expected currency devaluation. Using a new high-frequency data set on...
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The newly established South African Reserve Bank (SARB) was tasked to protect the currency by navigating the interwar gold standard, and, from March 1933, maintaining parity with the Pound Sterling. We find that South Africa's exit from gold secured an unparalleled and rapid recovery from the...
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